Saleshandy vs Apollo Pricing, seats, data and which is better

The short answer

Saleshandy and Apollo cost almost exactly the same per data credit, about 1.9 cents each, so the data is not what separates them. Seats are. Saleshandy bills per workspace: $34 a month on annual billing for one user, $76 for up to ten, $149 for unlimited. Apollo bills per seat: $49, $79 or $119 per user a month on annual billing. A team of five pays $76 a month on Saleshandy Pro against $245 on Apollo Basic. Apollo earns the premium if you need a built-in dialer, CRM and deal management in the same login. Saleshandy wins on cost per sent email and now ships the larger claimed contact database. AutoMail is the third option when the list is not the bottleneck and the writing is.

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Quick verdict

Who each tool is for

Both Saleshandy and Apollo are capable. Here is the shortest honest way to choose, with where AutoMail fits.

Pick Saleshandy

Sending volume and headcount are what drive your bill. Pro is $76 a month on annual billing for ten users, 30,000 prospects and 100,000 emails, with unlimited connected mailboxes and warm-up included. Five people cost $76 here and $245 on Apollo Basic.

Pick Apollo

You want prospecting, calling and deal management in one login. Basic is $49 per seat a month on annual billing with 30,000 credits per seat per year, and buying-intent topics and deal management are things Saleshandy does not sell at all. Saleshandy does have its own dialer, but as a separately priced product rather than part of the plan.

Pick AutoMail

You already have a list and the bottleneck is writing sequences that actually get replies. The AI researches each prospect, writes the 1:1 opener and follow-ups, warms and rotates inboxes, then routes meeting-ready replies to your booking link. Flat per workspace, unlimited seats.

Most published comparisons of these two are out of date, so it is worth starting with what changed. Saleshandy repriced in 2026. Its entry tier went from $25 to $34 a month on annual billing, and the unlimited-users promise that used to run across every plan now applies only to the top tier. Starter covers one user, Pro covers ten, Scale is unlimited. If you are reading a comparison that says Saleshandy gives you unlimited seats at $25, it was written before the change and the team maths in it is wrong. We re-verified both vendors on their own pricing pages on 1 September 2026.

The second thing worth knowing upends the usual framing. Apollo is normally cast as the data platform and Saleshandy as the cheap sender, but Saleshandy Lead Finder now advertises 852 million contacts and 42 million companies against Apollo's 210 million-plus contacts. Those are vendor-claimed counts on both sides and neither is independently audited, so treat them as claims rather than measurements. Still, the idea that you buy Apollo because it is the only one with a real database no longer holds. What you buy Apollo for is the rest of the platform: the dialer, the deal management, the intent data and the CRM.

Where the two genuinely diverge is the billing axis, and it decides most purchases before anyone reads a feature list. The table below is honest about that, including the places Apollo is worth its higher price.

Side by side

Saleshandy vs Apollo vs AutoMail

Pricing verified September 2026. Capabilities change, so check each vendor for the latest before you buy.

What matters	Saleshandy	Apollo	AutoMail
What it is built around	A high-volume cold email sender with unlimited mailboxes, warm-up and a bolt-on B2B Lead Finder	A B2B contact database with sequencing, a power dialer, intent data and deal management on top	A sending platform: AI personalization, mailbox rotation and reply handling
Billing axis	Per workspace, with a seat cap on each tier	Per seat, plus consumption credits	Flat per workspace, unlimited seats, no credits
Entry price (annual)	$34/mo Starter ($41 monthly): 2,000 prospects, 6,000 emails, 1,500 lead credits, 1 user	$49/seat/mo Basic: 30,000 credits per seat per year	$49/mo flat per workspace, unlimited seats
Higher tiers (annual)	Pro $76/mo ($99 monthly): 30,000 prospects, 100,000 emails, 4,000 lead credits, 10 users. Scale $149/mo ($189): unlimited prospects, 200,000 emails, 8,000 lead credits, unlimited users	Professional $79/seat/mo (48,000 credits/yr), Organization $119/seat/mo with a 3-seat minimum (72,000 credits/yr)	$99 Growth, $249 Agency, flat per workspace
Cost for a team of 5	$76/mo on Pro; the plan covers up to 10 users	$245/mo on Basic, $395/mo on Professional	$49/mo on Starter; seats are free on every plan
Cost for a team of 25	$149/mo on Scale, which is unlimited users	$1,225/mo on Basic, $1,975/mo on Professional	$99/mo on Growth; seats are free on every plan
Cost per data credit	About $0.019 to $0.023 depending on tier	About $0.0196 to $0.0198 on every paid tier	Nothing is metered by credits
Claimed database size	852M+ contacts and 42M+ companies in Lead Finder	210M+ contacts, plus buying-intent topics and Google Maps business search	No built-in database; bring or sync your own list
Connected sending mailboxes	Unlimited on every plan, with rotation	Sequences included; not built for large rotating mailbox pools	5 on Starter, unlimited on Agency, with rotation
Mailbox warm-up	Included on every plan, unlimited	Listed in the Deliverability Suite on every paid tier, delivered through third-party providers	Included, plus a spam-score check before every send
Phone numbers and dialer	Sold as a paid Dialer add-on with its own credits	Mobile numbers in the database and a built-in power dialer; Advanced Dialer is a $119/team/mo add-on	Email only by design
CRM and deal management	A light built-in CRM; most teams sync to their own	Yes, pipeline and deal management built in	No, syncs to your CRM
Email verification	Metered add-on, about $19 per 5,000, with one-time credits on Pro and Scale	Included in enrichment, spends credits	Bounce safeguards on send; bring a verified list
Managed sending infrastructure	Yes, mailboxes at $2.99 to $3.99 each per month and domains at $14 a year	Not sold	Connect your own mailboxes and domains
Free plan and trial	No free plan; 7-day trial, no card required	Free plan with 900 credits per seat per year	No free plan
AI copywriting	AI assists metered by credits	Assists, variants and agentic loops on higher tiers	Researches each prospect and writes the full 1:1 sequence

Comparison reflects publicly available pricing and positioning as of September 2026. Company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

The third option

Where AutoMail fits between them

The AI writes the sequence

Both tools above leave the copy to you. AutoMail researches each prospect and writes a genuine 1:1 opener and follow-ups, so relevance, not just volume, drives the reply rate.

Deliverability built in

Inbox rotation, gradual warm-up and a spam-score check on every send keep personalized copy in the primary inbox, built for the 2026 Google and Microsoft sender rules.

Replies become meetings

When a prospect answers, the sequence pauses, intent is classified, and meeting-ready replies route to your booking link and CRM. Flat per workspace, unlimited seats, no credits.

One honest caveat: AutoMail has no built-in lead database, so bring or sync your own verified list. If prospecting data is what you need most, keep a data tool for that and run the outreach here.

Good questions

Saleshandy vs Apollo, answered

Saleshandy is a cold email sender priced per workspace, built around unlimited connected mailboxes, rotation and warm-up, with a B2B Lead Finder attached. Apollo is a sales platform priced per seat, built around a contact database with sequencing, a power dialer, intent data and deal management on top. Both will find you addresses and send sequences. Only Apollo will call the prospect and manage the deal afterwards.

Saleshandy, and the gap widens with every person you add. Saleshandy Pro is $76 a month on annual billing and covers up to ten users. Apollo Basic is $49 per seat, so ten people cost $490. At one seat the two are close, $34 against $49. At five seats it is $76 against $245, and at twenty-five it is $149 on Saleshandy Scale against $1,225 on Apollo Basic.

No, and this changed in 2026. Saleshandy now includes one user on Starter, ten on Pro and unlimited only on Scale. Many comparison articles still repeat the old unlimited-seats-everywhere claim alongside the old $25 entry price, both of which are stale. If you are a team of two or more, the real Saleshandy entry price is the $76 Pro tier, not the $34 Starter tier.

Saleshandy claims the larger database. Its Lead Finder advertises 852 million contacts and 42 million companies, against Apollo's 210 million-plus contacts. Both figures are vendor claims and neither is independently audited, so the honest reading is that database size is no longer a reason to pick Apollo. Apollo's data advantage today is in what surrounds the records: verified mobile numbers, buying-intent topics and waterfall enrichment.

They are almost identical, which surprises most buyers. Apollo credits work out at roughly $0.0196 to $0.0198 each on every paid tier. Saleshandy lead credits run about $0.023 on Starter, $0.019 on Pro and $0.0186 on Scale. Per credit the two are within a fraction of a cent, so the data is priced the same way in both products and the real cost difference between them is seats, not records.

Saleshandy, by design. It connects unlimited mailboxes on every plan, rotates sends across them automatically and includes unlimited warm-up, which is the standard way to protect sender reputation at volume. Apollo lists email warmup in its Deliverability Suite on paid tiers, delivered through third-party providers, but sequences sit on top of a data platform rather than being the core product. Teams sending serious volume commonly pair Apollo data with a dedicated sender.

For many small teams, yes, and that is the strongest argument for paying per seat. Apollo includes a power dialer with call recording, pipeline and deal management, and intent topics in the same login, so one $49 seat can replace a separate dialer subscription and a light CRM. Saleshandy sells calling as a metered add-on and expects your CRM to live elsewhere. Price both against the tools you would otherwise keep.

Both ship AI that drafts or rewrites a message, and Apollo adds agentic loops on higher tiers, but in both cases a person still decides the angle, writes the opener and designs the follow-ups. That is the gap AutoMail fills: it researches each prospect, writes the full personalized sequence, warms and rotates the sending inboxes, then pauses on reply and routes meeting-ready answers to your booking link.

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